Eldan:The only true D&D movies are "The Gamers" and "The Gamers II: Dorkness Rising". Every fan knows that.

Anyway: what does D&D have to do with Maths? No idea of 4th ed changed that (I doubt it) but it's not really anything more than first grade addition and subtraction.

Nope if you can add up 3d6 (say 3+2+5) then you can play DnD in 4th edition(and 3rd). I'm sure it would be a great way to teach basic math skills to kids."You have 50 hp, the monster hits you for 10 damage, how much do you have left?"

Sorry if this sounds condensending, it wasn't ment to, i was serious about a fun way to apply addition and subtraction.

Apart from the awesome youtube The Gamers series(not to be confused with a feature film by the same name that was crap), there is a really good adaptation of Dungeons and Dragons, in the form of anime. It's called Slayers. Now, it may not call itself an adaptation of dungeons and dragons, but it's about as D&D inspired you can get without it taking place in Forgotten realms.

I, too, was ashamed of the DnD movie. Then I watched the DVD. Seriously! Yeah, the effects suck, but I've always been able to get around that. Rent the DVD and watch the deleted scenes (with even worse effects). There is about a half-hour of deleted material that was "taken out for pacing)." If it had not been, it would have been a 120-minute flick, but it would have been good.

Sadly, almost everytime there is an attempt at doing a officially licenced D&D movie, they give it to the wrong damned people and it turns atrocious. I seriously think they need to pick a campaign setting, grab a storyline, and hire a good director and effects house.

For instance (in my fervent dreams), if they decide to make the early Drizz't books into a trilogy of films, directed by Peter Jackson (or along the same vein, with the imagination and willpower to do a big-budget fantasy trilogy) and using the technology that allowed Cameron's Avatar to have regular actors in little make-up still look like anthropomorphic cat people.

Or howabout a (non-animated piece of shit) Dragonlance Chronicles trilogy? Hire a decent cast of knowns and unknowns to play the roles, DON'T TINKER WITH THE SCRIPT, and again hire out to Cameron's effects house to use their CG tech.

Just don't put a fucking Waynes Brother in my D&D movie. Seriously, why the fuck did they do that?

Bender's Game was awful. I aside from a couple of decent jokes near the beginning it's an apsolute shambles. The premise was pretty interesting (i.e. What if Futurama was a parody of classic fantasy rather than classic sci-fi?) but in the end the whole thing ended up being lame Lord of the Rings parody.

If you want to buy decent Futurama movie The Beast with a Billion Backs and The Wild Green Yonder are the best bets (but honestly they don't really compare to the episodes, Futurama is just not designed for the movie format) but seriously, not Bender's Game.

I actually have Wrath of the Dragon God on DVD its cheesy but its not that bad...Never saw the first one after I was warned off of it by almost everyone I know. The DnD references in the IT Crowd were actualy really embarassing because it made the game seem stupid, I watched the entire series with my family but didn't want too watch that episode because I DM a group and didn't want people throwing references at me to take the piss out of me.

Three FANTASTIC D&D movies came out back from 2001-2003. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. The novels inspired about 90% of the flavor in D&D sourcebooks, and therefore could be considered D&D movies. You have the basic classes and everything at various points, though it's a bit low on magic.